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Members of the Campbellsville High School Beta Club, along with the Campbellsville Elementary School Safety Patrol, are shown with a portion of the items they donated to help tornado victims in West Liberty.

The Campbellsville Middle School Beta club members are not pictured but also collected $300 to be used to purchase items for the community.

Campbellsville’s top official says “noncompliance” to state regulations at the city’s recycling center has been corrected.

At the Tuesday, March 13, meeting of the Taylor County Fiscal Court, Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers told magistrates that he isn’t sure the county taking over operation of the recycling center is a good idea.

“When we’re finished, this will be the best-looking one room schoolhouse in the state,” says Taylor County Superintendent Roger Cook.
Cook and other school personnel began work last week to renovate Friendship Schoolhouse.

Two Campbellsville women were injured in a two-vehicle collision on West Main Street in front of Campbellsville Elementary Wednesday.
According to a Campbellsville Police news release, Olivia Gabehart was driving a 2009 Nissan when she rear-ended a 1995 Nissan driven by Thereasaann Drew.
Gabehart was taken to Taylor Regional Hospital by family members, while Drew was transported by Campbellsville/Taylor County EMS. Both were treated and released.
Drew’s passenger, a 3-year-old who was not identified in the news release, was not injured.

The Kentucky Senate approved its version of the state’s biennial budget plan Thursday by a 32-4 vote.
House Bill 265, as amended by the Senate, is similar to the budget that cleared the House two weeks ago. The plan includes 8.4 percent cuts on nearly all agencies over the next two years.
This is on top of 10 rounds of budget reductions since 2007. Critical areas, such as Medicaid, are exempt from the cuts.
Base-line school funding remains, along with an additional provision for school districts suffering damage from the recent tornadoes.